I did my once-a-decade e-waste run, tossed out all of my old routers (with the exception of my WRT54G, which I want to make into a Raspberry Pi case...)

I have a wifi dead zone in my house in my kid's room. I thought about running powerline adapters to the space and setting up a crappy router as an AP.

BUT THEY'RE ALL GONE.

Oh, well - I should pick up a cheap wifi 6 router today.
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On 01 Dec 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

I did my once-a-decade e-waste run, tossed out all of my old routers
(with the exception of my WRT54G, which I want to make into a Raspberry
Pi case...)

Ah a good de-cluttering, how did that feel?

I have a wifi dead zone in my house in my kid's room. I thought about running powerline adapters to the space and setting up a crappy router
as an AP.

BUT THEY'RE ALL GONE.

Aha! That's how it felt. :/
What will you do now?

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... 24 hours in a day and 24 beers in a case. Hmmmm...

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MeaTLoTioN wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

I have a wifi dead zone in my house in my kid's room. I thought about running powerline adapters to the space and setting up a crappy router
as an AP.

BUT THEY'RE ALL GONE.

Aha! That's how it felt. :/
What will you do now?

I have a great thrift store near me with a computer and electronics
section. I'll keep my eye out for a cheap router.

(My office router/AP was $5, a Netgear R8000. You have to keep checking
back, though, you never know what they're going to get.)



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On 04 Dec 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

I have a great thrift store near me with a computer and electronics section. I'll keep my eye out for a cheap router.

(My office router/AP was $5, a Netgear R8000. You have to keep checking back, though, you never know what they're going to get.)

Ah that's cool, I'm sure there's always a bargain to be had in those stores. We don't seem to have any "thrift" stores like that in the UK, we can't give electronics to any charity shops and they aren't allowed to sell them as any electronics have to be disposed of as e-waste which is a crying shame oftentimes.

I think charity shops would need a special licence in order to receive and sell such items which is probably why none or hardly any sell things like that.

Boot fairs are pretty much the only way I can think of to get electronics like that, and they don't happen everywhere and often, usually early Sunday mornings in the spring/summer/autumn at random School fields or similar.

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